I have a Yamaha Sound bar that only take optical input. I want to use this adapter for my laptop 3.5 mm head phone jack to my sound bar. Will it work?
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It needs to have an S/PDIF output slot. On some higher end laptops, the 3.5mm headphone jack doubles as that but you will have to look at your laptop specs and see if it has an S/PDIF output. Usually when you plug in a pair of headphones or fiber optic cable, the Playback settings windows (Windows 8 for me) pops up and asks you to choose your output. Mine asks me to choose either "Headphone, Stereo, or S/PDIF." When I plug my fiber optic cable in and select "S/PDIF" the other end of the cable with have red light coming out of the tip. That is one way to make sure.
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It depends on whether your laptop has optical out built into its headphone jack. All Apple MacBooks do, but it's more iffy on PC laptops.
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It should. I've a similar setup out of my Imac and I'm getting 5.1 sound to my speaker system
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It should work if your laptop's port support S/PDIF. That is emitting a red light besides carrying the regular electric signal. Some of them do it when properly configured. You have to check its specs.
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Check to see if your 3.5mm jack is optical out. If so, this will work. Most TVs only have the TOSLINK connector for optical. Otherwise, you'll want to go with that.
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The headset you refer to uses 3.5mm connectors, such as the iPhone or any of the Android phones. This adaptor converts a 2.5mm connector, such as the old Symbian Nokia phones used. You need a different adaptor. And, whether it's the adaptor or my laptop, I can't get it to work for the microphone jack. I've actually gone to using a USB microphone (Audio Technica ATR2100) and a set of earbuds. But I needed that for other uses, anyway.
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This adapter should work since it splits the audio source into stereo. The only thing is now in audition it will only pick up either a left or right input signal (to fix just switch inputs to mono in audition) Hope this helps
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If the mic works on your phone as-is, then it should work. If it dosen't, this device won't help. This isn't a converter. It puts out the same signals on the same pins as the input device. The only purpose this adapter serves is to save space: you can plug in a straight cable into a tight space that won't allow a straight cable.
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Yes it will work, you are 'double-amping' however. A different option would be to get a DAC connected through USB or the optical out of the 3.5mm jack of the air and then into AMP.
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Yes. I use an iPhone 5 headset, this adapter and connect to a Dell laptop analog audio ports on the side.
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Uhm...not sure. I have only used this adapter for yamaha keyboards. Sorry I couldn't be much of help. I'm going to guess that it'll work as long as the adapter fits but I can't say for sure. Oh! The only problem I had with it is that the earphones I used didn't work for it (Samsung In-Ear Headphones) so I used apple earphones.
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The input jack may be identical but the voltage may be different. Stick to the recommended adapter.
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Note for earlier response the adapter used connects to Audio out of the TV and you connect the sound bar male end into the Female end of the adapter which I did not see yet on Amazon.
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Yes, the sound works with this adapter. I got the sound to transfer to the TV by changing one of the settings on the video program I was using. It was pretty easy and it made audio quality way better.
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the only way this adapter will work is if you 3.5mm jack has an embedded built in digital optical output built in. it is most commenly found in mac desktop computers and mac mini's. i have not heard of it built into a TV yet. but if you google the model number of the tv and search for its 3.5mm output you should find out if it has that capability. hope this helps you
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Depending you may not need it. Most optical outputs on TVs are normal size, and this is an adaptor that 'downsizes' the connection to a smaller plug if you need that. First get a normal optical cable with normal size connectors at both ends and try them in both your TV and your sound bar. If they fit great. If one or both the TV and the sound bar need a smaller connection then you will need one of these for connecting to each of the items that need the smaller connection. Hope that helps.
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I just realized that the adapter I suggested is nor quite right, since it would do the opposite: allow you to connect a small phone jock to the TV. What you need is a headphone adapter, such as this one: Monoprice 3.5mm Stereo Plug to 6.35mm (1/4 Inch) Stereo Jack Adaptor
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Yes, that is what it's designed for. It also works with my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone. Most laptops have 2 jacks - 1 for microphone, 1 for headphone. If your laptop has only 1 jack, it's almost always a "combo" jack that does both headphone and microphone so you will need this adapter.
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One might expect so, both being made by the same manufacturer, but I can tell you this: The soundbar is an analog device, so it will work on a TV that has an output jack for headphones. You can't connect the soundbar to an optical audio jack without a device that converts analog audio to digital. I have two TVs. One (smaller, cheaper) has a headphone jack (analog) the soundbar works fine with. The other TV (bigger, pricier) does not have a headphone jack. I don't know why. Hope this helps.
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No. This adapts certain (often Apple) jacks that combine optical and analog in the same jack. This device works for its purpose, but it is a mechanical adapter only.